XPresso AG announced today the promotion of Michael Möller to Managing Director of Webersche Kaffeerösterei GmbH effective September 01, 2024.

After over three years as Chief Controller of XPresso AG, Michael Möller will continue his career in the XPresso family. “I am thankful for the experiences at XPresso AG and looking forward to this new role and responsibility at WKR. I am honored to continue my personal journey at XPresso and I am excited to further shape the future of coffee in this evolving market! ” said Michael Möller in his first meeting with the Webersche Kaffeerösterei leadership team. 

The world is facing an enormous challenge. The global corona pandemic has an impact on each and every one of us, on all areas of our lives – and of course it impacts our company.

The situation is unpredictable and challenging. This makes it all the more important that we stand together in these times, that we work together to slow down the spread of the corona virus and to master the challenge. Our highest priority is the well-being of our employees, our customers and our partners. We do everything we can to ensure their safety and health, be it on site or in the home office – while at the same time ensuring the continuity of our businesses, to continue supplying our customers with high-quality coffee products. And to be able to continue to offer our important coffee products. 

Just as we do everything possible to keep our XPresso family safe, we hope that you and your family stay safe in these more-than-challenging times. We are confident that we will be able to get through this together.

XPresso AG announced today the promotion of Jan Lampe to Managing Director of Webersche Kaffeerösterei GmbH effective January 4, 2021.

Jan Lampe will continue to be a valuable addition to our executive team, and we are very happy that we could persuade him to continue his career in the XPresso family, said Dr. Marko Reimer, XPresso AG's chairman of German-born Jan Lampe, who continues his journey at WKR after previously being Chief Controller for XPresso AG.  "I am honored and excited to further shape the future of XPresso and WKR - now in purely business oriented role. It is very humbling to be faced with so much history, but I am very confident about our position for the future!" said Lampe in his first meeting with company leadership.

XPresso AG opened the doors to its flagship store in the prestigious shopping street of Koenigsstrasse in Stuttgart today. "Everyone has worked really hard on this project for months, and today's festive opening highlights our coffee expertise, which we have acquired over more than 120 years of history, and the creativity we apply to coffee experiences!" said Dr. Schäffer, XPresso CEO during the opening ceremony. "We firmly believe in this project, which aims to give everyone the chance to experience the very best the world of XPresso coffee has to offer."

The store, aptly named "The Coffee Experience" offers a wide range of products and experiences over two floors, demonstrating the entire process of making coffee from the art of roasting to various brewing techniques. Attractions include a coffee bar, barista courses, live coffee roasting demonstrations and an innovative "Make your own coffee capsules" station, enabling customers to create their own, personalized XPresso capsule flavors.

Coffee, the essential drink for many, is presented at the space in a surprising new way, allowing novices and experts alike to discover its original aspects as part of a multisensory experience that embraces tradition and innovation. The contemporary XPresso flagship store will welcome visitors and accompany them through a journey in discovering both traditional and new coffee drinking methods, with a style and colors that evoke the raw ingredient, prociding a stage for all possible coffee experiences, with a unique atmosphere in a booming shopping district that artfully represents the tradition and innovation that have long been the focus of X-Presso's growing brand.

X-Presso AG is happy to announce today that its former chairman, Dr. Jürgen Weber, has received the Bundesverdienstkreuz am Bande, Germany's highest civil honor. The Federal Cross of Merit medal is awarded to individuals and organizations as recognition for outstanding contributions to political, socio-economic and intellectual activity in Germany.  

The Federal Cross of Merit was awarded by the President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Walter Steinmeier, at Castle Bellevue in Berlin in Summer 2019. Steinmeier emphasized the outsized contribution Dr. Weber has made to German coffee culture over his many decades of work in the coffee industry. "We will probably never know just how large your impact on the German economy has been. Without your coffee, millions of people would never be awake enough to go to work!" joked Steinmeier to Dr. Weber during the award ceremony.

Dr. Weber previously was Managing Director of Webersche Kaffeerösterei GmbH. He retired from his positition of Chairman of X-Presso AG at the end of 2018. His post was taken up by Dr. Marko Reimer, who continues the tradition of excellence in coffee first established by Dr. Weber's great-grandfather.

X-Presso AG announced today that its Board of Directors has appointed Dr. Marko Reimer as Chairman effective January 1st, 2019.

"I have had the pleasure to work with Dr. Reimer and watch him grow as a leader for almost a decade now. His long track record  speaks for itself. He is clearly the chairman for X-Presso's future. He has demonstrated time and time again that he will do everything in his power to ensure X-Presso's success and I have full confidence that he will be an amazing chairman", said X-Presso CEO Dr. Schäffer.

Dr. Reimer joined the X-Presso family in 2011, where he was instrumental to the Xpresso Capsule System's early success in the market. He then moved quickly through the company's ranks. Most recently, he served as WKR GmbH Managing Director. He holds a doctorate in management studies from TU Berlin.

When not in the Vallendar HQ of X-Presso, the Mecklenburg native and self-proclaimed coffee fanatic (his favorite X-Presso flavor is the Light Roast) can often be found exploring the coffee plantations near Boquete, Panama, searching for the perfect coffee beans.

Dr. Daniel Schaupp named Managing Director of KMS GmbH

X-Presso also announced that Dr. Daniel Schaupp will promoted to Managing Director of Kaffeemaschinen Schäffer (KMS) GmbH effective January 1st, 2019.

Würzburg-native Dr. Schaupp, who joined KMS in 2018 as Head of Finance, said on Tuesday: "I am absolutely thrilled and honored to be a part of the X-Presso and KMS families. I am lucky to be surrounded by such a dedicated and hard-working team!" On the company's direction for the future he added: "KMS has a long and innovative history of making great coffee machines. In 2019, we will continue executing our growth strategy."

Dr. Schaupp holds a doctorate in finance from from the University of Würzburg and, prior to joining KMS, worked  in Australia. "I am most definitely a foodie and love to try new flavor combinations, but when it comes to coffee, I like the classics. Give me a fresh-ground dark columbian arabica and I am a happy man" Dr. Schaupp added during the press conference.